Cher Lloyd receives death threat

Cher Lloyd has received a death threat after a Twitter follower sent her a horrible message about her mother. The X Factor star tweeted yesterday, wishing her mum a happy birthday. "Its mamma lloyds birthday!!! Love you mum! [sic]" She then received a threatening message from @anthonylinney, who wrote: "Shut the f**k up before I kill your mum in front of you."

The star retaliated, saying: "I'm sure you'd go to jail for that, and get into deep s**t for a threat like that, come on think about it dumb ass." @anthonylinney panicked and then deleted their account. Cher was obviously shaken by the incident and published a follow-up tweet:"I don't know why I let silly things like that get to me. I'm only human... I think? Hahaha!"